Our new search index: Caffeine — Today, we're announcing the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it's the largest collection of web content we've offered.

Links and Twitter: Length Shouldn't Matter — Since early March, we have been routing links within Direct Messages through our link service to detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of malware, phishing, and other dangers. Any link shared in a Direct Message has been wrapped with a twt.tl URL.

Father of webOS notifications leaves for Apple — The man who “Invented the non-intrusive banner notification system used in webOS” and also did all sorts of other work for the OS, Rich Dellinger, is leaving Palm to return to his earlier employer, Apple, as a Senior User Interface Designer.

Sprint says it overstated EVO launch day sales — (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp said on Tuesday it had inadvertently overstated the launch day sales of the much anticipated EVO 4G phone from HTC Corp, which is touted as a serious competitor to Apple's iPhone 4.

HTC EVO 4G sold out across the country — You snooze, you lose. That's exactly what thousands of EVO 4G hopefuls are learning today as the smartphone that smashed Sprint sales records has gone out of stock across the country. So what can we learn from all of this?

Times Company Objects to News-Reader App — Last week I wrote about the Pulse News Reader, a popular iPad application developed by two students at the Stanford Institute of Design that collects and presents articles from Web sites of news organizations like The New York Times.

WWDC claim exposed: Apple Safari 5 isn't fastest — Apple claimed at WWDC that its new Safari 5 browser is “fastest.” Faster than Chrome; faster than Firefox; and definitely faster than IE. Naturally, this was a red rag to the proverbial male Bos primigenius, so smarty-pants everywhere had to go see for themselves.

AT&T Learns Exactly The Wrong Thing About Data Usage — AT&T says that 65% of its users use less 200 megabytes per month; a whopping 98% use less than 2 gigabytes. (NYT) AT&T looked at these numbers and concluded it was time for tiered pricing; time to soak these “data pigs”. — I am a data pig.

How Zynga Survived FarmVille — When Zynga launched FarmVille last June, the company thought 200,000 daily active users in the first two months would be a success. Within eight weeks, the game had surpassed Zynga's hits of the previous two years. For the first 26 weeks FarmVille added 1 million net …

The Truth About the Faces in Your Facebook Ads — Are those real people in the “Hot Girls Want to Meet You” advertising? Here's the answer. — Recommends — You've undoubtedly seen advertisements running down the right-hand side of your Facebook page (as in the example at left).

An update on Google Cloud Print — In April, we announced Google Cloud Print, a service that enables any app (web, mobile, desktop), on any device, OS, or browser, to print to any printer. Development is progressing quickly and we are now testing the service internally at Google.

Hulu plans to charge, expand to devices: sources — (Reuters) - Free video website Hulu plans to soon begin charging customers and is looking to expand its content to consumer devices like the Xbox and iPad, according to two sources, as the site's media owners experiment with platforms beyond an ad-supported TV model.

Microsoft: Office 2011 for Mac will be 32-bit only — When Office 2011 for the Mac ships this holiday season, it will be available as a 32-bit product only, Microsoft officials said in a blog post on June 8. — Microsoft is attributing the decision to the fact that it hasn't transitioned …